Snipe – now finished

Colin been working on a painting of two snipe at rest, and it’s now finished. It’s so beautiful! We have called it ‘Patience’, because the snipe are sitting out a cold snap which has frozen most of the soft ground in which they feed.

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Thank you very much, Lorna – it’s one of my favourites and as I said, I’d love to be able to keep this one. But I can’t complain, I already have a lovely painting of a snipe on the kitchen wall – from 1999, and I’ve refused to sell it many times. Colin is starting on a painting of some grey partridges now. No grass grows under his feet!

Stunning! They do look very, very patient birds and such cold to endure. I must go and see whether we have snipes here. I would love to see Colin paint some of our native birds in their natural environment. But I also look forward to seeing the Partridge. I don’t think we have those here.

Thank you, Lyn! I would be interested to know if you have anything similar to snipe in NZ. Colin is looking forward to the grey partridge – he hasn’t painted these for many years. They are nowhere near as common as they were when I was a child – you used to see & hear them everywhere in the farmland.